Happy Birthday...

Today is a special friend of mines birthday and this is the card I have made for her,

anyone who knows Kelly will know that her mantra is more is more on her cards and that is why I have gone against everything I usually do to make her this card, was it possible to add anything else...? Hee Hee

I used an 8x8 inch square card base and stamped it with a rose stamp that is from a retired Stampin' Up set I can't bare to part with (a rose is a rose) using pretty in pink ink and then heat embossed with clear powder. My layer is cut from some also retired paper from my stash as is the rosette and flower (can you see a theme here? I'm loving my new found skill of paper rosettes) I added a whisper white layer so the rosette would stand out more. I cut the borders and butterfly from pretty in pink card and the flower was made using one of my new dies, spiral blossom one. Some simple layering of the many pieces and I finished with pearls around the outside edges and to accent the borders. Well it is finished, a very full card, for a very full-on person (in the nicest possible way...of course)

Happy Birthday Kel, I hope you have a special day, hugs.

What do you think...? Is this busy style what you like...? Feel free to leave me a comment.

Until next time Happy crafting Dawn x

Happy Birthday...

Today is a very special persons birthday, its my Mums birthday!

This is the card I made for her...

I used a 8x8 inch square card blank and layered basic black card, gloss white and then three panels of elegant eggplant spaced equally on top. I cut one large and three smaller butterflies from black card stock and shaped the wings before I secured them across the panels. The greeting was stamped with versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder. The swirls were added using enamel accents freehand and for my first attempt I was rather pleased with how they look. I finished with gems on the bodies of each of the butterflies.

Happy birthday Mum, I hope your day is truly as special as you are! With lots of love and hugs x

I must admit to casing this card design from the incredibly talented Sue Wilson, thank you Sue I love the clean simple lines, I changed the colour to suit my recipient and didn't have any of the swirlies you use, but I love it.

What do you think...? Please leave a comment so I know you have visited.

Until next time Happy crafting Dawn x

Happy Birthday...

Well today is Lesley's birthday and this is the card I made for her...

 

I stamped the background with the swirl stamp from my baroque motif Stampin' Up! stamp set using perfect plum ink onto an 8x8 inch pearlescent card blank. Using two strips of perfect plum designer series papers I punched one edge with a scallop border punch, then scored between each scallop and folded concertina style and then joined the ends together, using a hot glue gun I fixed the rosette onto a circle of scrap card and then mounted this onto my stamped base card. I cut a circle of whisper white and stuck this over the centre of the rosette. I cut two butterflies using my gorgeous new nesty set, one in perfect plum and the other in vellum and layered these on top of the rosette and added plum pearls down the body and randomly around the swirls on the base and there you have it.

What do you think...? I was rather pleased with the over all effect and I'm sure I will make a similar one in the future.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Lesley I hope you had a lovely day.

Thank you for visiting, until next time happy crafting Dawn x

Happy New Year!

Happy New year!

It's getting to that time when the decorations have to come down, and well I was looking at the lovely handmade cards I was given, don't get me wrong I appreciate all the cards I was given but as someone who makes cards, I really appreciate the effort people have gone to, for me! I thought what a shame for them to be seen by only me, my family and my visitors when they deserve to be seen by the whole wide world so.....

.....here they are...

I hope you have enjoyed looking at these cards. Until next time Happy crafting Dawn x

Happy New Year!

Happy New year!

Here are some of the handmade Christmas cards I was given....

I hope you have enjoyed looking at them. Happy crafting Dawn x

Merry Christmas

If my plans have worked then this post should be up on Christmas day (and not before).

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my readers a wonderful, happy and healthy Christmas, and I hope you are fortunate enough to have friends and family around you to celebrate with. If however you do not celebrate Christmas then I hope you still have the chance to be surrounded by people you care about and I wish you happy holidays.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, please call back again soon, maybe next time you will leave me a comment so I know you have been. Take care Dawn x

3D Christmas

We made one of these stylish crackers at our 3D Christmas workshop along with a gift bag.

Firstly we wiped our cracker shape with an anti-static bag and inked up serene snowflakes with versamark ink, randomly stamping over the whole design, we then embossed this with white embossing powder.
Using black ink we stamped a snowflake onto whisper white card and punched with a circle punch. We punched a black scallop circle and covered this with versamark ink and added heat and stick powder, we sprinkled dazzling diamond glitter over the top and briefly heated again, making a very bling scallop circle to layer our snowflake on to. We stamped, also with black ink, two tiny tags with a choice of words, mine say "merry" and "handcrafted" and punched these using the tiny tag punch.
We assembled our cracker tying the ends with ribbon and bakers twine for texture. We added the scallop circle with foam pads and the tiny tags with more bakers twine to bring the whole design together.

What do you think...? I think they are very stylish and with the black and white theme they go with everyone's colour scheme.
Thank you for visiting, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x

Welcome Christmas

Here are three cards I made using the Welcome Christmas stamp set available from Stampin' Up!

The snowflake stamp is from my favourite set Serene Snowflakes.

The last card was one we made during our Christmas workshop. Please email me if you would like details of my planned workshops for 2012.
Thank you for visiting, until next time Happy crafting Dawn x

Christmas or not?

As you may of guessed I do love my house mouse designs and well this stamp is actually more birthday, as originally the mouse had a birthday candle balancing on his nose and naturally in my head he had a snowflake, I think it works....?

Thank you for visiting, Merry Christmas and Happy crafting Dawn x

Christmas Tags

Here are some of the tags I have made for Christmas this year.

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut the snowman shape and then cut the word wish, using another die. I inked around the snowman shape with a light blue ink, you can't really see that in the photo. I coloured the nose carrot orange and the hat black, I then glittered the hat with black glitter. I stamped the merry and punched out with a tiny tag punch, both from Stampin' Up! I added a small bell around its neck for the final touch.

                     I made a simple gift box with a window to keep them safe until I need them...

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x